The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

High Availability (HA) refers to the design and implementation of systems that are operational and accessible without significant downtime. HA systems are engineered to overcome failures automatically ...

A practical guide to server load balancing by a Network World reader. Details server load balancing technologies and applications for systems managers. This piece was contributed by a reader. If you ...

Rackspace’s cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability. Rackspace’s cloud ...

A blade system without a load balancer would be like Chicago’s O’Hare without air traffic control. One of the core applications for server blades is to serve as the front end to Web hosting, firewalls ...

There are two WAN connections coming into a Fortigate firewall that will be setup for either failover or load balancing. One is a Comcast 50/10 and the other is a 4G modem (not a lot of options out ...